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VOL. L, NO. 16

ARDMORE and BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1954

Copyright, Trustees
Bryn Mawr College,

of

1964 PRICE 20 CENTS



Concert Shows
Fine Technique.
Great; Artistry,)

- Offers Varied

Program

he contributed by
‘iet

Barsky, °57

Being. a concert artist is a full
time job. Being a professor, par-
ticularly head of a department, is
more than a full-time job. Yet, in
spite of existing pressures, Mr.
Horace Alwyne has successfully
combined the two. His brilliance as
a pianist was shown when he gave
his annual recital on March 38rd,
in Goodhart. :

The recital began with.a per-
formance of the “Chromatic Fan-
tasia and Fugue” by Bach. This is
the kind of piece which demands a
clarity of style and technique in
order to present it successfully.
Mr. Alwyne was able to do just
that.

Mr. Alwyne then added a pleas-
antly intimate tone to his program
when he stopped to. explain ‘the
different tableaux shown in. Mus-
sorgsky’s. “Pictures at an Exhibi-
tion.” This work is better known
by the Ravel orchestration, which
this reviewer prefers to the orig-
inal piano score. Perhaps that is
why a few of the pieces seemed a
little lacking in spirit.

Of course the piano cannot be

of an orchestra. The changes of
dynamics were particularly note-
worthy and added much to the
color of the work. The most effec-
tive scenes were “The Old Castle,”

Mx..New President of the Alliance,

Bryn Mawr Colleg

by phedars Ann Palmer, ’57

Anne Mazick, who was the Secre-
tary of the Alliance this year, is a
small: girl with sparkling eyes and
a charming smile. Her interest in
pelitical events may be noticed in
her avid discussions of internation-
al affairs and civil liberties’ prob-
lems. As a politics major Anne
hopes td study in Southeast Asia
or Russia after her graduation
from Bryn Mawr.

Because of: her present position
in the Alliance, Anne-will be able
to start’ planning now for when she
takes over the organization after
spring vacation. The new head of
political events on campus hopes
to extend the activities of the Alli-
ance to reach more of the campus
and to increase the political aware-
ness of all students of Bryn Mawr
College.

Spotters To Watch
Atop Hospital Roof

e Elects Presidents

For Alliance, League, & Athletic Assn.

Judy Haywood celebrated her
120th birthday and her election as
President of the League on the
same day—last Wednesday.

Judy believes the purpose. of the
League is twofold: practical, in
permitting girls ‘interested in so-
cial work to receive experience;
and educational, in teaching stu-
dents the conditions which exist in
the world today. Since Judy was

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New Head O Of A. A
Has ‘No Plans’ Yet

by Mimi Collins, ’57

‘Barbara Bornemann, newly elect-
ed President of the Athletic Asso-
ciation, has already tackled her du-
ties in that capacity mentally ~if
not physically. When pinned down
by a reporter she stated that she
has no reforms of. the athletic pro-
gram in mind but would like to see
the Applebee Barn debt paid off.
She added that she’d also like to
stimulate more interest in the Barn



Plans are now under way for a!

new airplane’ spotting station
which will be on the roof of the
Bryn Mawr Hospital. These sta-
tions supplement radar which can-
not intercept a plane flying lower
than 5,000 feet.

\.The new station will cover a
blind +6 which now exists in
Lower Merion, West Conshohocken,
and most of Radnor and Haver-
ford. One hundred sixty-eight ob-
servers are needed to staff it on
a twenty four hour basis. Each
observer will serve two hours a
week, /

If you ‘are interested in partici-
pating in thisyplan contact Richard
Beal, Righters Mill Road, Ardmore.
The phone number is Welsh Val-



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Denys Page Talks on Homeric Odyssey
And Inconsistencies in Ending Sections

The fifth lecture in a series on
the Odyssey .was given by Denys
Page in Goodhart Auditorium at
8:30, Monday, March 8. He dealt:
mainly with the return of Odys-
seus, the slaying of the suitors, and
the general technique the poet or

so that it could eventually be in-
'sulated for use all year.

Displaying her usual sense of
humor, Barbie claimed that she
was in organic lab trying to figure
out an unknown (“unsuccessfully,
of course”)* when Bobbie Olsen ar-
rived to tell her the news. She said,
“TJ was in such a twit after that,
that I still didn’t figure out the un-
known until some time later. I
looked just.like some mad scientist
with a yellow corsage on a dirty
white lab coat.”

Barbie is a biology major and
plans to enter medical school after
graduation — possibly Penn, Yale
or Cornell. When asked what she
was interested in, besides sports
and. science, Barbie answered that
she likes music and occasionally
terrorizes Denbigh with her trom-
bone playing. Her passion is sail-
ing.

_ At present she is quite excited
about her agenda for this summer,
which includes a trip to Germany

“lt visit her mother’s relatives.



CALENDAR

Thursday, March 11
5:00 Poetry Reading by Mr.





poets used,

In the last third of the Odyssey
there is a. sudden change for the
worse in technique, style and qual-
ity. All evidence points to the fact
that this was the work of an in-
ferior poet. This theory was also
held by the great Homeric scholars
of the third century B.C.

Four scenes constitute the last
of the. Odyssey as. we now know it.



An objective study of the Greek
language in the third scene would
indicate that it was written by an
author familiar with fifth and sixth
century Athenian speech, with an
imperfect knowledge of the ancient
epic style. Similar indications
throughout these episodes lead
scholars to believe that the entirety
of this third scene was.added later

-to the then completed Odyssey.

In general the scenes fall below
the narrative power associated with
the Odyssey. The poet breaks ele-

‘DENYS PAGE
book onward, the poet disregards

about the nature of the homeric
dead and the geography of Hades.
He completely disregards rigorous-
ly observed customs that were fol-
lowed throughout the Iliad and the
Odyssey. The poet. has strayed far
from the Homeric eonception of

‘death and seems unaware, or negli-

‘gent of the basic tenets of the epic
‘poem.

While some passages, hore by
themselves, are smooth, polished
verses of great beauty, they do not



mentary literary rules. The epic’
language is not familiar or natural

_.to-him. Rushing deviously toa lame |

seem to have been originally de-|-.

| signed for their present place. in

the epic. Extrangous dialogue has.

conclusion, the poet does not con- been transferred holesale from its

sider the meaning of his words.
_ From the beginning of the XXIV



former, and correct, place.
‘Continued on Page 6, Col. 3

all _that-_has_previously been said |

Richard Wilbur, author of “Cere-
monies,” in the Deanery.

8:30 p.m. Wallace Nelson will
speak about the Summer Interra-
cial Workshops of the -Congress
of ‘Racial equality.

Friday, March 12

8:30 Concert including “Les
Noces,” performed by Bryn Mawr
and Princeton Choruses, and
Young Peoples Dance Group, in

+—-Goodhart.—_
Monday, March 15

7:30 p.m. Current Events in the
Gommon Room.

8:30 p.m. “The Method, Time,
and Place of Composition of the
Odyssey,” last lecture of the Flex-
ner series by Denys-Page -will-be
given in Goodhart.

Tuesday, March 16

5:00 p.m. Conyers Read will
speak on “Elizabethan Research”
in the Ely Room.

8:00 p.m. Dr. Edward Monahan,
Instructor at Villanova, will speak
on “Reason and Authority in Me-
dieval Philosophy.”

Wednesday, March 17

7:30 p.m. N.S.A. meeting in

Common Room. wr





jexplained its development while re-|

Phila. Art Alliance
Host To Thespians

The “Drama Committee of the
Philadelphia Art- Alliance played
host to a group of Bryn Mawr and
Haverford .thespians at 8:30 on
Friday, March 6, The occasion was
that of a concert reading of six
short scenes from great plays, pre-
sented by dramatic orgafizations
of the Philadelphia area.

Last on the program, Bryn
Mawr’s selection, that of the key
scene in Luigi Pirandello’s Six
Characters in Search of an: Author
in..which the chief conflict-of the
play, that of the struggle between
three of the characters, the moth-
er, the father, and the daughter, is
portrayed, was a refreshing end to
an evening of traditional drama.

The preceding scenes included
selections from Elizabeth the
Queen, presented’ by the. Drama-
teurs; The Lute-Song, a Chinese
classic play of the 11th ‘century,
presented by the Chestnut Hill Col-
lege Club; Henry V, presented by
the ‘Footlighters; Cyrano de Ber-
gerac, presented by the Penn Play-

presented by the Plays and Play-
Continued on Page 5, Col. 5

Goodales To Give
Fabulous Awards

Fabulous prizes are being given
to members of the chorus who sell
the most tickets for the Bryn
Mawr-Princeton concert which will
beheld in Goodhart..on March. 12.
The prizes include records, a steak
dinner cooked by Mrs. Goodale, and
chauffeur service for a. week pro-
vided by Mrs. Goodale.

The basis for awarding ‘the
prizes has not yet been decided,
since tickets sell for different
prices. Members of the Chorus
Council are not eligible for the con-
test, so everyone iS urged to buy
her tickets from some other mem-
ber of the chorus. Plan now to at-
tend the concert and bring your
date.

ers; and the Taming of- the Shrew,-

French Com

Of This Month

‘Madwoman Of Chaillot’
College Theater’s
New Choice

especially contributed by
Jean Young, ’56

Jean Giraudoux’s play “The Mad-
woman of Ghaillot” will be present-
ed in Goodhart Auditorium on
March 19th and 20th by the Bryn
Mawr College Theatre and the
Haverford Drama Club. Mr. Nor-
man Garfield will direct the pre-

Giraudoux’s Madwoman is, as he
himself once said, “perfectly mad.”
Unlike her motley menage of cafe
friends, she is not afraid to take
refuge in -the: past,
world of feather boas and rose-
water and hungry cats. Then too,
one has one’s social repsonsibility.
As she says: “I have to see what
the evil ones are up to in my dis-

those who hate flowers, those who
hate people.”

Accordingly, when she realizes
that a President, a Prospector, and
a Baron plan to invade her district
and her world in search of oil, she
devotes an entire afternoon, aided
by her friends at the Cafe Francis
and other notable Madwomen, to
the foiling of their plans.

Included in the cast are Marilyn
Muir as Countess Aurelia, the
Madwoman of Chaillot; Gerald
Goodman as the Prospector and
Nick Mabry as the Ragpicker;
Rusty Gordon as Mme, Gabrielle,
Adele MacVéagh as Mme, Jose-
phine, and Linda Levitt as Madame
Constance;
and Bill Hitzrot-as Pierre. :

The play opened in New York in
December, 1948, with Martita Hunt
in the title role. “Ondine,” also
written by M. Giraudoux, is now
being presented on Broadway.





only refer to values in religion but
connotes certain forces. in the
realm of politics and social life.
The way of life of Puritanism is
especially important to us“as our
democracy has sprung from it; es-
sentially, however, it is net demo-
cratic.

Conyers Read, in a lecture on
Puritanism on Tuesday, March 8,

lating it to politics in Elizabethan
times and today.

Puritanism in the early part of
its history was not a creative way
of religion. Instead it was critical
and reforming, maintaining as its
role unified opposition to the at-
tempts of Bloody Mary. to recath-
olicize Britain: During this time,
many of the emigrees increased
her unpopularity by their writings:
This unpopularity, however, stem-
med not only from her religious
policy but from her Spanish mar-
riage, loss of territory in France,

e' return to Rome.



- During the reign’ of the. next
queen, Elizabeth, the emigree play-

Read Explains Undemocratic, Religious,
And Political Influences of Puritanism
eu —Surttenten as-a—term—does-—-not+

hernment: Elizabeth, tied by ~cir-
cumstances of birth to Protestant-
ism, did not work any hasty or
strict reforms. Her work of legis-
lation was moderate, consisting of
the passage of the Act of Suprem-
acy and the mild Uniformity Act,
which were forced tates by the
Puritans.

These weak acts were occom-
panied by the adoption of a com-

isfied the Protestants, who consid-
ered it popish, and dissatisfied the
Catholics, who found it unortho-
dox, even more.

Elizabeth’s policy on religion
had to be as. ambiguous as it was
because of economic and extra-na-
tional political considerations. The
two great powers of (Europe,
France and Spain, were both Cath-
olic. All of the commercial activity
of Britain was in the cloth indus-
try, which passed through the port
of Antwerp, in Spanish goneeted
Belgium.

_In addition, Elizabeth was per-
sonally not opposed to Catholicism,
though opposed to Romanism, and



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